English words for 'Synonym of bomber jacket.'
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noun
- (clothing) Ellipsis of bomber jacket.
- (US, slang) A 22-ounce beer bottle.
- (slang) A large cannabis cigarette.
- Ellipsis of graffiti bomber.
- (aviation, military) A military aircraft designed to carry and drop bombs.
- A person who sets bombs, especially as an act of terrorism.
- a military aircraft that drops bombs during flight
- a person who plants bombs
- a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
adj
noun
- (chiefly British, slang, in World War II) The rear gunner in a bomber.
- (chiefly British, slang, in World War II) The last aircraft in a formation.
- (meteorology, slang) The southernmost thunderstorm in a band of storms, often subject to the best conditions for strengthening.
- (military slang) The man guarding the rear of a patrol.
noun
- (military slang, 1910s–1940s) An aeroplane.
- (electronics) An electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components.
- (chiefly US, Canada) A coach, a bus used for long travels.
- (medical industry, slang) An ambulance.
- Part of a MIRV missile, having on-board motors used to deliver the warhead to a target.
- (networking) A network topology with each computer connected to a single cable.
- (automotive) A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads.
- the topology of a network whose components are connected by a busbar
- a car that is old and unreliable
- a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport
- an electrical conductor that makes a common connection between several circuits
verb
- (transitive, automotive, transport, chiefly US) To transport students to school, often to a more distant school for the purposes of achieving racial integration.
- (transitive, automotive, transport) To transport via a motor bus.
- (intransitive, automotive, transport) To travel by bus.
- (intransitive, US, food service) To work at clearing the remains of meals from tables or counters; to work as a busboy.
- (transitive, US, food service) To clear meal remains from.
- ride in a bus
- send or move around by bus
- remove used dishes from the table in restaurants
noun
- (World War I military slang, rare) A gas mask.
- (US, automotive) A part of the exhaust pipe of a car that dampens the noise the engine produces.
- An accessory for a firearm that lessens the noise at the muzzle.
- A type of scarf.
- a scarf worn around the neck
- a device that decreases the amplitude of electronic, mechanical, acoustical, or aerodynamic oscillations
- a tubular acoustic device inserted in the exhaust system that is designed to reduce noise
noun
- (US, military, aviation) Initialism of patrol bomber.
- Initialism of parallel bars.
- (sports, speedrunning) Initialism of personal best.
- (finance) Initialism of prime broker or prime brokerage.
- Initialism of peanut butter.
- (philately) Initialism of plate block.
- a unit of information equal to 1000 terabytes or 10^15 bytes
- a unit of information equal to 1024 tebibytes or 2^50 bytes
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noun
- (World War I– World War II military slang) An explosive dropped from a bomber aeroplane.
- A phonecard.
- A card advertising the services of a prostitute.
- (figurative) An attribute, symptom, object, or behavior which is distinctly characteristic of someone or something.
- A small printed card which identifies the bearer, traditionally presented for introduction when making a social visit to a home or when attending a formal social event or business meeting.
- (euphemistic) Excrement, especially of a domestic animal.
- a printed or written greeting that is left to indicate that you have visited
- a card that is used instead of cash to make telephone calls
- a distinguishing characteristic or behavior
noun
noun
- (slang) An aircraft.
- (cooking, slang) A chicken or turkey used as food.
- (UK, with definite article, chiefly in phrases) Booing and jeering, especially as done by an audience expressing displeasure at a performer.
- (informal) Snowbird (retiree who moves to a warmer climate).
- (slang) A man, fellow.
- (UK, Ireland, colloquial, by extension) A girlfriend.
- (slang) A prison sentence.
- (UK, Ireland, colloquial) A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive.
- (slang, US) A kilogram of cocaine.
- (slang, Canada, Philippines) A penis.
- An animal of the clade (traditionally class) Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, having a beaked mouth, and laying eggs.
- (slang) A satellite.
- (with definite article) The vulgar hand gesture in which the middle finger is extended.
- A yardbird.
- the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food
- informal terms for a (young) woman
- a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt
- badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers
- warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To observe or identify wild birds in their natural environment.
- (intransitive) To catch or shoot birds; to hunt birds.
- (transitive, television) To transmit via satellite.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.
- (transitive, slang) To bring into prison, to roof.
- watch and study birds in their natural habitat
noun
- (military slang, World War I– World War II) A bomber pilot.
- (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) A person employed to drive a truck, especially a tractor-trailer or other large industrial truck.
- (cycling) A freestyle BMX move involving turning the bicycle handlebar 360-degrees, akin to spinning the steering wheel of a big truck to turn.
- (skiing) A freestyle skiing aerialist move involving grabbing the front end of one's skis on a jump in a pike position, similar to holding the large steering wheel of a big truck.
- someone who drives a truck as an occupation
noun
name
- (rare) A female given name.
- A ghost town in Peninsula Township, Grand Traverse County, Michigan, United States.
- A former rural municipality in Manitoba, Canada, now part of Ellice-Archie.
- A city in Cass County, Missouri, United States.
- A diminutive of the male given name Archibald, from the Germanic languages, also used as a formal given name.
noun
- (US, military, aviation) Initialism of fighter-bomber (used as a prefix)
- (military) Initialism of firebase.
- (sports) Abbreviation of final B.
- Initialism of friendship book.
- (soccer) Initialism of fullback.
- (military) Initialism of forward base.
- (Internet slang) Abbreviation of femboy.
- Initialism of fuck buddy.
name
noun
- (US military slang, World War I) An aircraft’s propeller.
- A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.
- (slang) Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
- (US) A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).
- (military) The structure to which a set of bombs in a bomber aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves and, by extension, any load of similar items dropped in quick succession such as paratroopers or containers.
- (slang) A bar (counter where drinks are served).
- (nautical) A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
- (golf) The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
- (fishing) The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
- (boardsports) A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.
- (horse racing) The short whip carried by a jockey.
- (figurative) A negative stimulus or a punishment. (This sense derives from the metaphor of using a stick, a long piece of wood, to poke or beat a beast of burden to compel it to move forward.)
- (uncountable) That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).
- (US, colloquial, uncountable) Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
- (baseball) General hitting ability.
- (carpentry) The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.
- (sports, generically) A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse.
- A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
- (field hockey or ice hockey) The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
- Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
- (golf) The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
- (aviation, uncountable) Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
- A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.
- (slang) A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).
- (video games) A joystick.
- (US, slang, uncountable) The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
- (computing) A memory stick.
- (US, colloquial) A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (the gear shift) with which the driver of such a vehicle controls its transmission.
- (uncountable) The tendency to stick (remain stuck), stickiness.
- A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.
- (slang) A handgun.
- (computing) Any of the eight 16-character groups making up the 128 characters of the 7-bit ASCII character set.
- (countable) A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
- (slang) Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.
- The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
- (chiefly Canada, US) A small rectangular block, with a length several times its width, which contains by volume one half of a cup of shortening (butter, margarine or lard).
- (baseball) The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
- (figuratively) A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).
- (jazz, slang) The clarinet.
- (slang, uncountable) Corporal punishment, beatings
- (British, figurative) Criticism or ridicule, often in the expressions "get a lot of stick", "get some stick", "come in for some stick", etc.
- (aviation) The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to the steering wheel of an automobile, can also be called the "stick", although "yoke" or "control wheel" is more commonly seen.)
- A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
- (motor racing) The traction of tires on the road surface.
- a small thin branch of a tree
- a long implement (usually made of wood) that is shaped so that hockey or polo players can hit a puck or ball
- a long thin implement resembling a length of wood
- a rectangular quarter pound block of butter or margarine
- threat of a penalty
- an implement consisting of a length of wood
- a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane
- marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
- informal terms for the leg
adj
verb
- (transitive) To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
- (intransitive) To persist.
- (transitive) To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
- (intransitive) To remain loyal; to remain firm.
- (transitive, now only in dialects) To stab.
- (transitive, gymnastics, aviation, sports) To perform (a landing or a shot) perfectly.
- (transitive) To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
- (intransitive) Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
- To hit with a stick.
- (transitive, joinery) To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.
- (intransitive, blackjack, chiefly UK) To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.
- (botany, transitive) To propagate plants by cuttings.
- (carpentry) To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- (intransitive, US, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (transitive) To furnish or set with sticks.
- (transitive) To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
- (intransitive) To jam; to stop moving.
- (intransitive) To become or remain attached; to adhere.
- (transitive) To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
- fasten with an adhesive material like glue
- pierce with a thrust using a pointed instrument
- cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface
- be loyal to
- fasten into place by fixing an end or point into something
- stick to firmly
- be in a certain place and not leave
- come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- fasten with or as with pins or nails
- saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
- pierce or penetrate or puncture with something pointed
- be a devoted follower or supporter
- put, fix, force, or implant
- endure
- be or become fixed
noun
- (heraldry) Synonym of helmet (“the feature above a shield on a coat of arms”).
- (Northern England (Cumberland, Westmorland)) A heavy cloud lying on the brow of a mountain, especially one associated with a storm.
- (nautical) The member of a vessel's crew in charge of steering the vessel; a helmsman or helmswoman.
- (nautical) The use of a helm (sense 1); also, the amount of space through which a helm is turned.
- (countable) A stalk of corn, or (uncountable) stalks of corn collectively (that is, straw), especially when bundled together or laid out straight to be used for thatching roofs.
- (nautical) The tiller (or, in a large ship, the wheel) which is used to steer the rudder of a marine vessel; also, the entire steering apparatus of a vessel.
- One in the position of controlling or directing; a controller, a director, a guide.
- (uncountable) Alternative form of haulm (“the stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop, which are used as animal food or litter, or for thatching”).
- Something used to control or steer; also (obsolete), a handle of a tool or weapon; a haft, a helve.
- (Northern England) A shelter for cattle or other farm animals; a hemmel, a shed.
- A position of control or leadership.
- steering mechanism for a vessel; a mechanical device by which a vessel is steered
- (figurative) a position of leadership
verb
- (transitive) To lay out (stalks of corn, or straw) straight to be used for thatching roofs; to yelm.
- (figuratively) To direct or lead (a project, etc.); to manage (an organization).
- (nautical) To control the helm (noun sense 1) of (a marine vessel); to be in charge of steering (a vessel).
- be at or take the helm of
noun
- (UK, military slang) A pilot.
- (South Asia) The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car.
- (UK, dialect) A donkey.
- (vulgar, slang) A penis (dick).
- (idiomatic, UK, in negative constructions) An insignificant sound or thing; dicky-bird.
- A haddock.
- (India, colloquial) the buttocks.
- (colloquial) A louse.
- (UK, dialect) A hedge sparrow.
- A small bird; a dicky-bird.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Dicky dirt = a shirt, meaning a shirt with a collar.
- (historical) A leather apron for a gig, etc.
- A detachable shirt front, collar or bib.
- a small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater
- a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt
adj
noun
- (British, air force slang) A destroyed aeroplane.
- (mining) A place in a mine where ore has been washed away by a flow of water.
- A total failure; a disappointment.
- (aeronautics) The aerodynamic effect of a small twist in the shape of an aircraft wing.
- A sporting fixture or other event that cannot be completed because of rain.
- (also biology) The cleaning of matter from a physiological system using a fluid; also, the fluid used for such cleaning; or the matter cleaned out from the system.
- An appliance designed to wash out the inside of something.
- (originally US, rail transport, road transport) A breach in a railway or road caused by flooding.
- A period between clinical treatments in which any medication delivered as the first treatment is allowed to be eliminated from a person's body before the second treatment begins.
- An unsuccessful person.
- The erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water; also, a channel produced by this action.
- (meteorology) The action whereby falling rainwater cleans particles from the air.
- An overwhelming victory; a landslide.
- (British, originally air force slang) A trainee who drops out of a training programme.
- An act of washing or cleaning the inside of something.
- someone who is unsuccessful
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- the channel or break produced by erosion of relatively soft soil by water
noun
- (military, slang) A friendly fighter aircraft.
- (especially) A young chicken.
- A young bird.
- (colloquial) An attractive, young woman; or, more generally, a woman.
- (India, Pakistan) A screen or blind made of finely slit bamboo and twine, hung in doorways or windows.
- informal terms for a (young) woman
- young bird especially of domestic fowl
verb
noun
- (firefighting, aviation) Abbreviation of air tanker.
- (US, sports) Initialism of anaerobic threshold.
- Initialism of appropriate technology.
- (US, Navy) Initialism of auxiliary tugboat.
- (fan fiction) Initialism of alternate timeline.
- Initialism of activity theory.
- (software) Initialism of assistive technology.
- (business, law) Ukrainian initialism of акціонерне товариство (akcionerne tovarystvo, “JSC”)
- (aviation, navigation) Initialism of aerotriangulation.
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- (military, aviation) Initialism of torpedo bomber.
- Abbreviation of throwback.
- (military, nautical) Initialism of torpedo boat.
- (ABDL) Initialism of teen baby.
- (electronics) Initialism of test board, a circuit board used to test a circuit for some specialized task.
- (pathology) Tuberculosis.
- (military, aviation) Initialism of trainer bomber (“a bomber that also serves as a trainer aircraft”).
- (baseball) Initialism of total bases.
- a unit of information equal to 1024 gibibytes or 2^40 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes
- a unit of information equal to 1000 gigabytes or 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000) bytes
- infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages)
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- (clothing) Ellipsis of bomber jacket.
- (US, slang) A 22-ounce beer bottle.
- (slang) A large cannabis cigarette.
- Ellipsis of graffiti bomber.
- (aviation, military) A military aircraft designed to carry and drop bombs.
- A person who sets bombs, especially as an act of terrorism.
- a military aircraft that drops bombs during flight
- a person who plants bombs
- a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
adj
noun
- (chiefly British, slang, in World War II) The rear gunner in a bomber.
- (chiefly British, slang, in World War II) The last aircraft in a formation.
- (meteorology, slang) The southernmost thunderstorm in a band of storms, often subject to the best conditions for strengthening.
- (military slang) The man guarding the rear of a patrol.
noun
- (military slang, 1910s–1940s) An aeroplane.
- (electronics) An electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components.
- (chiefly US, Canada) A coach, a bus used for long travels.
- (medical industry, slang) An ambulance.
- Part of a MIRV missile, having on-board motors used to deliver the warhead to a target.
- (networking) A network topology with each computer connected to a single cable.
- (automotive) A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads.
- the topology of a network whose components are connected by a busbar
- a car that is old and unreliable
- a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport
- an electrical conductor that makes a common connection between several circuits
verb
- (transitive, automotive, transport, chiefly US) To transport students to school, often to a more distant school for the purposes of achieving racial integration.
- (transitive, automotive, transport) To transport via a motor bus.
- (intransitive, automotive, transport) To travel by bus.
- (intransitive, US, food service) To work at clearing the remains of meals from tables or counters; to work as a busboy.
- (transitive, US, food service) To clear meal remains from.
- ride in a bus
- send or move around by bus
- remove used dishes from the table in restaurants
noun
- (World War I military slang, rare) A gas mask.
- (US, automotive) A part of the exhaust pipe of a car that dampens the noise the engine produces.
- An accessory for a firearm that lessens the noise at the muzzle.
- A type of scarf.
- a scarf worn around the neck
- a device that decreases the amplitude of electronic, mechanical, acoustical, or aerodynamic oscillations
- a tubular acoustic device inserted in the exhaust system that is designed to reduce noise
noun
- (US, military, aviation) Initialism of patrol bomber.
- Initialism of parallel bars.
- (sports, speedrunning) Initialism of personal best.
- (finance) Initialism of prime broker or prime brokerage.
- Initialism of peanut butter.
- (philately) Initialism of plate block.
- a unit of information equal to 1000 terabytes or 10^15 bytes
- a unit of information equal to 1024 tebibytes or 2^50 bytes
adj
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noun
- (World War I– World War II military slang) An explosive dropped from a bomber aeroplane.
- A phonecard.
- A card advertising the services of a prostitute.
- (figurative) An attribute, symptom, object, or behavior which is distinctly characteristic of someone or something.
- A small printed card which identifies the bearer, traditionally presented for introduction when making a social visit to a home or when attending a formal social event or business meeting.
- (euphemistic) Excrement, especially of a domestic animal.
- a printed or written greeting that is left to indicate that you have visited
- a card that is used instead of cash to make telephone calls
- a distinguishing characteristic or behavior
noun
noun
- (slang) An aircraft.
- (cooking, slang) A chicken or turkey used as food.
- (UK, with definite article, chiefly in phrases) Booing and jeering, especially as done by an audience expressing displeasure at a performer.
- (informal) Snowbird (retiree who moves to a warmer climate).
- (slang) A man, fellow.
- (UK, Ireland, colloquial, by extension) A girlfriend.
- (slang) A prison sentence.
- (UK, Ireland, colloquial) A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive.
- (slang, US) A kilogram of cocaine.
- (slang, Canada, Philippines) A penis.
- An animal of the clade (traditionally class) Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, having a beaked mouth, and laying eggs.
- (slang) A satellite.
- (with definite article) The vulgar hand gesture in which the middle finger is extended.
- A yardbird.
- the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food
- informal terms for a (young) woman
- a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt
- badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers
- warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
adj
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- (intransitive) To observe or identify wild birds in their natural environment.
- (intransitive) To catch or shoot birds; to hunt birds.
- (transitive, television) To transmit via satellite.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.
- (transitive, slang) To bring into prison, to roof.
- watch and study birds in their natural habitat
noun
- (military slang, World War I– World War II) A bomber pilot.
- (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) A person employed to drive a truck, especially a tractor-trailer or other large industrial truck.
- (cycling) A freestyle BMX move involving turning the bicycle handlebar 360-degrees, akin to spinning the steering wheel of a big truck to turn.
- (skiing) A freestyle skiing aerialist move involving grabbing the front end of one's skis on a jump in a pike position, similar to holding the large steering wheel of a big truck.
- someone who drives a truck as an occupation
noun
name
- (rare) A female given name.
- A ghost town in Peninsula Township, Grand Traverse County, Michigan, United States.
- A former rural municipality in Manitoba, Canada, now part of Ellice-Archie.
- A city in Cass County, Missouri, United States.
- A diminutive of the male given name Archibald, from the Germanic languages, also used as a formal given name.
noun
- (US, military, aviation) Initialism of fighter-bomber (used as a prefix)
- (military) Initialism of firebase.
- (sports) Abbreviation of final B.
- Initialism of friendship book.
- (soccer) Initialism of fullback.
- (military) Initialism of forward base.
- (Internet slang) Abbreviation of femboy.
- Initialism of fuck buddy.
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- (US military slang, World War I) An aircraft’s propeller.
- A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.
- (slang) Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
- (US) A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).
- (military) The structure to which a set of bombs in a bomber aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves and, by extension, any load of similar items dropped in quick succession such as paratroopers or containers.
- (slang) A bar (counter where drinks are served).
- (nautical) A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
- (golf) The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
- (fishing) The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
- (boardsports) A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.
- (horse racing) The short whip carried by a jockey.
- (figurative) A negative stimulus or a punishment. (This sense derives from the metaphor of using a stick, a long piece of wood, to poke or beat a beast of burden to compel it to move forward.)
- (uncountable) That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).
- (US, colloquial, uncountable) Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
- (baseball) General hitting ability.
- (carpentry) The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.
- (sports, generically) A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse.
- A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
- (field hockey or ice hockey) The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
- Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
- (golf) The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
- (aviation, uncountable) Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
- A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.
- (slang) A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).
- (video games) A joystick.
- (US, slang, uncountable) The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
- (computing) A memory stick.
- (US, colloquial) A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (the gear shift) with which the driver of such a vehicle controls its transmission.
- (uncountable) The tendency to stick (remain stuck), stickiness.
- A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.
- (slang) A handgun.
- (computing) Any of the eight 16-character groups making up the 128 characters of the 7-bit ASCII character set.
- (countable) A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
- (slang) Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.
- The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
- (chiefly Canada, US) A small rectangular block, with a length several times its width, which contains by volume one half of a cup of shortening (butter, margarine or lard).
- (baseball) The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
- (figuratively) A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).
- (jazz, slang) The clarinet.
- (slang, uncountable) Corporal punishment, beatings
- (British, figurative) Criticism or ridicule, often in the expressions "get a lot of stick", "get some stick", "come in for some stick", etc.
- (aviation) The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to the steering wheel of an automobile, can also be called the "stick", although "yoke" or "control wheel" is more commonly seen.)
- A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
- (motor racing) The traction of tires on the road surface.
- a small thin branch of a tree
- a long implement (usually made of wood) that is shaped so that hockey or polo players can hit a puck or ball
- a long thin implement resembling a length of wood
- a rectangular quarter pound block of butter or margarine
- threat of a penalty
- an implement consisting of a length of wood
- a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane
- marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
- informal terms for the leg
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- (transitive) To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
- (intransitive) To persist.
- (transitive) To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
- (intransitive) To remain loyal; to remain firm.
- (transitive, now only in dialects) To stab.
- (transitive, gymnastics, aviation, sports) To perform (a landing or a shot) perfectly.
- (transitive) To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
- (intransitive) Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
- To hit with a stick.
- (transitive, joinery) To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.
- (intransitive, blackjack, chiefly UK) To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.
- (botany, transitive) To propagate plants by cuttings.
- (carpentry) To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- (intransitive, US, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (transitive) To furnish or set with sticks.
- (transitive) To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
- (intransitive) To jam; to stop moving.
- (intransitive) To become or remain attached; to adhere.
- (transitive) To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
- fasten with an adhesive material like glue
- pierce with a thrust using a pointed instrument
- cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface
- be loyal to
- fasten into place by fixing an end or point into something
- stick to firmly
- be in a certain place and not leave
- come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- fasten with or as with pins or nails
- saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
- pierce or penetrate or puncture with something pointed
- be a devoted follower or supporter
- put, fix, force, or implant
- endure
- be or become fixed
noun
- (heraldry) Synonym of helmet (“the feature above a shield on a coat of arms”).
- (Northern England (Cumberland, Westmorland)) A heavy cloud lying on the brow of a mountain, especially one associated with a storm.
- (nautical) The member of a vessel's crew in charge of steering the vessel; a helmsman or helmswoman.
- (nautical) The use of a helm (sense 1); also, the amount of space through which a helm is turned.
- (countable) A stalk of corn, or (uncountable) stalks of corn collectively (that is, straw), especially when bundled together or laid out straight to be used for thatching roofs.
- (nautical) The tiller (or, in a large ship, the wheel) which is used to steer the rudder of a marine vessel; also, the entire steering apparatus of a vessel.
- One in the position of controlling or directing; a controller, a director, a guide.
- (uncountable) Alternative form of haulm (“the stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop, which are used as animal food or litter, or for thatching”).
- Something used to control or steer; also (obsolete), a handle of a tool or weapon; a haft, a helve.
- (Northern England) A shelter for cattle or other farm animals; a hemmel, a shed.
- A position of control or leadership.
- steering mechanism for a vessel; a mechanical device by which a vessel is steered
- (figurative) a position of leadership
verb
- (transitive) To lay out (stalks of corn, or straw) straight to be used for thatching roofs; to yelm.
- (figuratively) To direct or lead (a project, etc.); to manage (an organization).
- (nautical) To control the helm (noun sense 1) of (a marine vessel); to be in charge of steering (a vessel).
- be at or take the helm of
noun
- (UK, military slang) A pilot.
- (South Asia) The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car.
- (UK, dialect) A donkey.
- (vulgar, slang) A penis (dick).
- (idiomatic, UK, in negative constructions) An insignificant sound or thing; dicky-bird.
- A haddock.
- (India, colloquial) the buttocks.
- (colloquial) A louse.
- (UK, dialect) A hedge sparrow.
- A small bird; a dicky-bird.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Dicky dirt = a shirt, meaning a shirt with a collar.
- (historical) A leather apron for a gig, etc.
- A detachable shirt front, collar or bib.
- a small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater
- a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt
adj
noun
- (British, air force slang) A destroyed aeroplane.
- (mining) A place in a mine where ore has been washed away by a flow of water.
- A total failure; a disappointment.
- (aeronautics) The aerodynamic effect of a small twist in the shape of an aircraft wing.
- A sporting fixture or other event that cannot be completed because of rain.
- (also biology) The cleaning of matter from a physiological system using a fluid; also, the fluid used for such cleaning; or the matter cleaned out from the system.
- An appliance designed to wash out the inside of something.
- (originally US, rail transport, road transport) A breach in a railway or road caused by flooding.
- A period between clinical treatments in which any medication delivered as the first treatment is allowed to be eliminated from a person's body before the second treatment begins.
- An unsuccessful person.
- The erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water; also, a channel produced by this action.
- (meteorology) The action whereby falling rainwater cleans particles from the air.
- An overwhelming victory; a landslide.
- (British, originally air force slang) A trainee who drops out of a training programme.
- An act of washing or cleaning the inside of something.
- someone who is unsuccessful
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- the channel or break produced by erosion of relatively soft soil by water
noun
- (military, slang) A friendly fighter aircraft.
- (especially) A young chicken.
- A young bird.
- (colloquial) An attractive, young woman; or, more generally, a woman.
- (India, Pakistan) A screen or blind made of finely slit bamboo and twine, hung in doorways or windows.
- informal terms for a (young) woman
- young bird especially of domestic fowl
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noun
- (firefighting, aviation) Abbreviation of air tanker.
- (US, sports) Initialism of anaerobic threshold.
- Initialism of appropriate technology.
- (US, Navy) Initialism of auxiliary tugboat.
- (fan fiction) Initialism of alternate timeline.
- Initialism of activity theory.
- (software) Initialism of assistive technology.
- (business, law) Ukrainian initialism of акціонерне товариство (akcionerne tovarystvo, “JSC”)
- (aviation, navigation) Initialism of aerotriangulation.
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- (military, aviation) Initialism of torpedo bomber.
- Abbreviation of throwback.
- (military, nautical) Initialism of torpedo boat.
- (ABDL) Initialism of teen baby.
- (electronics) Initialism of test board, a circuit board used to test a circuit for some specialized task.
- (pathology) Tuberculosis.
- (military, aviation) Initialism of trainer bomber (“a bomber that also serves as a trainer aircraft”).
- (baseball) Initialism of total bases.
- a unit of information equal to 1024 gibibytes or 2^40 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes
- a unit of information equal to 1000 gigabytes or 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000) bytes
- infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages)
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